Stories by Partha Mitra

Partha Mitra is Crick-Clay Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and H N Mahabala Professor (visiting) at IIT Madras. He obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Harvard and was a member of the Theory Group at Bell Laboratories. He is currently engaged in mapping brain circuits in the Mouse and the Marmoset. You can follow him @partha_mitra

Neuroscience

Is Neuroscience Limited by Tools or Ideas?

Searching for a way out of the field’s conceptual traps

April 11, 2017 — Partha Mitra

Mind

A New Method to Measure Consciousness Discovered

It's an important new tool for doctors, but what is it actually measuring?

January 7, 2014 — Partha Mitra

Mind

What’s Wrong with the Brain Activity Map Proposal

With the president suggesting a multibillion-dollar neuroscience effort, a leading neuroscientist explains the deep conceptual problems with plans to record all the brain's neurons

March 5, 2013 — Partha Mitra

Mind

The Brain's Highways: Mapping the Last Frontier

Are neurons organized like roads?

May 22, 2012 — Partha Mitra